Our Team
The highly regarded EPICenter leadership team are passionate about energy and helping Georgia Tech lead the Southeast to a resilient and reliable energy future.
Laura Taylor
Director, EPICenter
Chair, School of Economics
ltaylor75@gatech.edu
Tim Lieuwen
Executive Director, Strategic Energy Institute
Chair, School of Aerospace Engineering
tim.lieuwen@aerospace.gatech.edu
Richard Simmons
Director of Research & Studies, EPICenter
richard.simmons@me.gatech.edu
Christine Conwell
Director of Planning & Operations, Strategic Energy Institute
christine.conwell@energy.gatech.edu
Trisha Sisk
Director of Activities & Engagement, Strategic Energy Institute
trisha.sisk@gatech.edu
Yang You
Research Associate II, EPICenter
yyou74@gatech.edu
Priya Devarajan
Research Communications Program Manager, Strategic Energy Institute
priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu
External Fellows
External Fellows are energy industry experts who work closely with EPICenter to ensure that EPICenter stays abreast of current industry trends and issues.
Scott McWhorter
Distinguished External Fellow
cmcwhorter7@gatech.edu
Andrea Pinabell
Distinguished External Fellow
apinabell6@gatech.edu
Miguel Granier
Distinguished External Fellow
mdgranier@gatech.edu
Initiative Leads
Initiate Leads are Georgia Tech faculty who lead campus efforts to promote multi-disciplinary research across campus and nurture industry and non-profit partnerships within their respective domains.
Joe F. Bozeman III
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Health Equity & Energy Transitions Lead
Research Interests: Socio-demographic impacts of the food-energy-water nexus; equity in energy and environmental systems; urban carbon management systems.
Jennifer Hirsch
Senior Director, SCoRE
Sustainable Communities Lead
Research Interests: Equity and sustainable built environments; grassroots sustainability innovation; community leadership in energy equity.
Debra Lam
Principal Researcher, Managing Director, Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation
Smart Cities and Inclusive Communities Lead
Research Interests: Inclusive Innovation; Smart cities; Urban Innovation.
Dan Molzahn
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Energy Club Lead
Research Interests: Power systems optimization; Non-linearities resulting from power flow equations; uncertainties related to renewable energy generation.
Faculty Affiliates
Faculty Affiliates are an informal advisory committee that helps advise EPICenter and who also work to connect Georgia Tech energy researchers across campus to policy and decision-makers throughout the Southeast.
Focus Area: Economics & Policy
Omar Asensio
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy
asensio@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Research Interests: Energy efficiency, markets, and policy; Market-based incentives; Smart grid and transportation; Sustainability policy.
Dylan Brewer
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
brewer@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Energy economics; Environmental economics; Industrial organization.
Marilyn Brown
Regents’ Professor, Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, School of Public Policy
marilyn.brown@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Research Interests: Clean energy policy; Energy markets and efficiency; Regulations and standards; Financing and subsidies; Climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Gaurav Doshi
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
gdoshi@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Energy Economics; Environmental economics; Industrial organization – firms responses to energy policy changes in energy markets.
Tony Harding
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
aharding6@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Energy and environmental economics; Intersections between energy policy and economics.
Bobby Harris
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
bobby.harris@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Public economics; Climate policy and the energy transition; Applied microeconomics.
Daniel Matisoff
Professor, School of Public Policy
matisoff@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Policy impacts on energy innovation and diffusion, and market-based incentives; Voluntary programs; Energy, climate, and environmental policy.
Matthew OIiver
Associate Professor, School of Economics
matthew.oliver@econ.gatech.edu
Research Interests: International development; Energy infrastructure; Energy and environment.
Casey Wichman
Associate Professor, School of Economics
wichman@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Applied econometrics; Environmental economics; Public economics.
Focus Area: Engineering
Joe F. Bozeman III
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
joe.bozeman@ce.gatech.edu
Research Interests: Socio-demographic impacts of the food-energy-water nexus; equity in energy and environmental systems; urban carbon management systems.
Constance Crozier
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
constance.crozier@isye.gatech.edu
Research Interests: Electric Vehicles; Power systems and electric vehicles; Control and operation of decarbonized power systems.
Dan Molzahn
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
molzahn@gatech.edu
Research Interests: Power systems optimization; Non-linearities resulting from power flow equations; uncertainties related to renewable energy generation.
Valerie Thomas
Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems, Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
valerie.thomas@isye.gatech.edu
Research Interests: Energy and materials efficiency; sustainability; industrial ecology; international security; carbon capture; electricity system development; building construction.